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politically. thanks very much for joining us here today. with news from around the world. a splinter movement has broken away from the al-qaeda linked islamists of mali saying it wants to fight terrorism and extremism now the newly formed group has stated that it's ready for peace talks with the government under french whose forces are currently fighting there france's defense minister meanwhile has said his country is prepared for a long drawn out conflict that is more if an option to look at the reasons behind the french intervention. french have died had no name today military operation in

mali but the discussion is still ongoing as to exactly why the western nation has put boots on african soil again costing money and people's lives. official rhetoric remains in line with unmentioned of the war on terrorism but some statements suggest another layer of france's defense minister has declared total become questor mali is the main goal with the president echoing french troops twenty five hundred so far who remain in the region for as long as necessary they're attempting to militarize huge sections of africa so that they will to monopolize access to the city to the resources this is the there with seeing this with the complete specifically in relations deal with the states i know we're seeing it with problems in other parts of the european union through european union troops actually being used i mean some of the money conflict as well which has been relatively rare in the past the gold and especially the iranian deposits make the country very

attractive nearly eighty percent of all france's energy generated by almost sixty nuclear power plants is dependent on african reigning in. french companies must go on the offensive and fight the growing influence of rival china for stake in africa's increasingly competitive markets all this is neocolonialism but with a simpler france is far from the only nation to have been defended its interests in africa the french have intervened around fifty times in africa in the last fifty years since official declination contact in regimes from rebels like into booty to central african republic all fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by sown economic or geopolitical interests this time is no different radical the call is asian wasn't actually over apart from economic there is also strategic importance this part of africa opens routes to the red sea and the middle east and

britain and france have for centuries fought over it before it's like a remake but with many others involved but that doesn't mean the round mutual interests here. if you ask people in mali you'd be surprised they were waiting for somebody to say. them because their army is not equipped to are trained to oppose these militants but it was necessary to intervene in mali people see this operation as a liberation they hardly wanted to live under islamicists mysie had done is a philosopher in the form and tunisia ambassador to us co his view on the positive impact for the people of mali is that it is actually a colonial throwback. it's ok if you want to come use resources put then it's logical that locals profit as well those riches go to improve their life but that's not the case this way as wild a kind of slavery in mali among the richest national resources in africa yet remains one of the poorest nations in the world for many years this building in

paris was the headquarters of the country's ministry of colonies the body which administered french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and former french colonies are independent someone that alone no idea is all just part of history and that history may be repeating. very financially r.t. from paris. what i have been numerous reports of weapons are spilling into mali after the toppling of more market after his regime in libya independent political analyst believes the western intervention in libya is the reason behind the turmoil in mali. most happy miley is a direct result of the arming of of rebels in khadafi in gadhafi in libya. as well as the fall of gadhafi gadhafi was a key player in negotiating peace deals the last peace deal in northern mali. was negotiated in two thousand and eight of my guess you get after you so he was

the linchpin of a lot of the security system in north africa plus the arming of the road plus the looting and get out of his own. weaponry by the rebel forces that's was created this instability and again this is not completely just this is not unforeseen consequences and there may be stupid the imperialist but they're not completely blind to the results of their actions this is are to say north korea is going nuclear over sanctions young announces a slew of major ballistic tomic weapons tests are all targeted against america which it sees as being behind fresh u.n. imposed penalties plus. the regulus game not once but twice i'll give you the story of a one year old girl who survived this. will be a bit later in the program for now though the health of the global economy and debt wobbles in europe both have come into the spotlight at the world's

a business and political elite who have converged on the swiss ski resort of davos for the annual financial forum he's kitty pilgrim is following the second day of the all the fancy gathering. it's politics that is the focus of policy by kids german chancellor angela merkel on the team the fleas mario monti and the e.c.b. president are they said ok only head discussing a strategy to pull europe out of the long running economic crisis is now the most anticipated speech of the day they had to come from british prime minister david cameron of the he announced a referendum on membership of the e.u. and his desire to win a new settlement for europe anybody's monti concessions from brussels as well but today when he came face to face with the leaders interestingly he seemed to blacks tracks like he was softer and his approach nice said he was no why you turning his back on europe although he was was did you know it is away from the topic because

his speech was that she focused on tax transparency to calm down on avoidance that's what he wanted to talk about but the rest of the financial ministers here in davos they just wanted to talk about the referendum. and katie will join us again later in the day here in r.t. for now though catalonia has adopted a declaration of software into the proclamation that gives it the right to hold a referendum on breaking away from spain but madrid is unswayed maintaining it's not up to the catalans to decide if they want to leave but a matter for spaniards to agree upon a scammer on this now i want to see where it leads are both sides with carlos deck also sociologist at the pump university thank you very much indeed for coming on the program today it does appear that madrid and catalonia are on a collision course at this point but how do you foresee it playing out. well i think the main challenge right now in catalonia is for this declaration of

sovereignty to to be something real to really put on the table a question that's that's increasingly interesting and important in the european union today not just in spain which is what does sovereignty look like in the european union carnivals come really cheap and for the moment it's really just a bunch of posturing you know. it's mostly signing declarations and saying you know catalonia is sovereign but there hasn't been really much work in in the material realm to really back up that type of soft. but you talk a lot of posturing going on here i mean if i may jump in just for a second i do apologize but madrid on the coast both say that you can't hold a referendum on leaving just like that and that any catalan vote would be null and void so the end of the day is it actually unlawful to try and do this.

well it's definitely unlawful i mean it's a lawful against the constitution the question is also you know how many people in spain right now. are really behind this constitution and when when does this constitution actually mean anything the constitution also guarantees a right for instance to decent housing and yet we find that you know hundreds of people are being are being kicked out of their homes today and being left out in the street all over spain and in catalonia so you know the constitution a lot of the times serves to i guess is about to validate an argument or to legitimize an argument whenever it's convenient for whoever is governing at the time. let's it gets out to what is i suppose the broad of the question here if indeed catalonia is able to hold a referendum on splitting from spain if indeed madrid allows it to happen if indeed spade gets involved and votes for it is allowed to go its own way kind of survive out there on its own. well that's

a really good question or i mean it's hard to say because when it comes to you know i'm the party that's currently in the government with the help of the republican left. decides that you know they're going to privatized the water and privatized natural resources in catalonia when they're going to get rid of all of their public health care and privatized that what they're basically doing is auctioning off the territory auctioning off all of the public and state institutions that they supposedly want all of the institutions that you build with sovereignty they're auction them off to private investors so you know the question is can they be can they be independent on their own materially they could if they weren't you know auctioning things off and and granting more sovereignty then the people of catalonia. position requires a lot more time than we have available for us today. so it's really just at the university thank you very much for joining us today. thanks for having me.

now in the dead of winter it pays to be careful on russia's icy roads we've got some shocking footage that has gone viral of what can happen if indeed you don't buckle up and take care out there by must say takes us through it all. the road is clear he decides to overtake his slips on the road the truck coming back shoes on to him they go something falls out there you see why don't your left corner is the baby who's just a little out of the car into oncoming traffic now what's more surprising about this is that the father comes out luckily this driver is quietly you know is pretty much aware of what's going on around him he picks up the kid goes back into the car his wife comes out picks up what is what's left of everything in the now this video has gone literally viral people are going crazy over it and it's only natural that they would because so many questions are being asked on why was this baby not properly

settled in this car that was nervy b. c. obviously seeing that the baby fell out of the car and it's unacceptable that they just nonchalantly just went about their business but now the question that everybody should be asking is rather who was filming the video where all of this was happening so russia motorists thought that they'll put cameras on the actual car so that if anything happens in terms of insurance they have something to actually show the police and say this is what happened on the road the person who was filming this decided to continue filming even as he saw that there's a child who just fell out of this car he continued filmy didn't stop to help didn't say anything and he just went about for me maybe because he thought it was going to be on you tube you know i'm not involved who cares but something that got everybody even talking more is the actual parents they just nonchalantly pick up whatever's left of their belongings and just move on i think the lesson of the day here is that not only are you not you know supposed to be driving recklessly on roads as we

have right now it's winter it's slippery it's snowing you need to be a bit more vigilant and babysits for a reason to protect us and to protect our kids. this is odd see now preliminary election results in jordan give the islamists new grounds for grievance a pro-government confidence of rio to fill the positions in the parliament off the claims the king to hijack the election that's still ahead for you. plus in venezuela as a security services uncover assassination plots against senior officials so met a guessing game over the council battle of president will go chavez that's after a short break.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day.

thanks so much for joining us here on our to today on the research show live in moscow. now kim dot com web entrepreneur an internet activist known for his now banned file sharing service he says he's at the center of a political witch hunt it was just until last year that his mega upload site was one of the most popular in the world we are talking millions upon millions of people freely using his web site to exchange information from one continent to the next now however if you look up his web site this is what you see it's basically been banned by the united states the u.s. off dorothy's and the cases are already become a landmark issue in the persecution of internet activists however kim dotcom has already started a brand new surface and is determined to keep free file sharing a life where he did speak exclusively to r.t. zanjeer blake about why he's being hounded across the cloud. is

a guy who grew up on the internet was a guy who made millions off the internet and here's a guy who designed mega upload at one site one of the most popular websites in the entire world with over one hundred million users is in the top five most trafficked websites and you know that's kind of why the f.b.i. wanted to shut it down i'm not. my hero he was selfless he is completely the opposite of me but i'm a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that big raid on the mega mansion the dot com mansion happened january twentieth two thousand and twelve it was the middle of the night ken was at his guest house on this how the mansion all of a sudden the authorities the local police showed up on helicopters came into his house with guns drawn arrested him arrested his colleagues hauled him off to prison froze his assets shut down his web site essentially they put his entire life on

hold and caused him to kind of take this new stance in terms of what he thinks of the internet particularly what he thinks about the current state of privacy and surveillance of the government is quite exposed here because they really went in was completely be prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring. ignoring our rights spying on illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying going to the whole picture when you look at it shows that this was an urgent mission done in a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that is still waiting a eventual extradition hearing to the u.s. at this point though it seems like every single passing day the justice department's case against him just crumbles more and more and more so sooner or later the u.s. government is going to have to prove that kim dotcom is worthy of the extra us and

at that point if he's convicted he could spend decades in. but the opinion that i got from him and from his legal team is that that's not going to happen any time soon. we can see a much more of that interview as well as analysis and opinion on the issue that will be updated today on our. in the middle of the martin's break in this. but for now north korea has warned it is prepared to carry out a plethora of rocket launchers and nuclear tests to allow it to compete militarily should the words turn to warfare or the message comes just a day after the u.n. approved more sanctions against pyongyang over a satellite launch back in december but political analyst now says that despite speculation there's little chance of an attack against america. all of their own so long as you have a seat of the recent years and the capability to directly attack the states from where they are i think the danger is much greater for the people in south korea

because you are this situation that will cause it during the free world stage he said. he will defeat there's issues for us yesterday for example it's easy to see this to be the international community saying that you cannot have a right to defend yourself so i feel this is the core of the reason why he behaves to injury. last month so profit can get down or that we still can't believe it's going. to be good for each. year to change that basically they're going to. continue certainly exists. this is ati talk about finding the closest secrets out about anyone in the world at all if you don't call me you can read about how intelligence agencies and governments are becoming google's favorite clients as the number of requests for private data was.

also online the great british brain drain and lack of opportunity for so many of the u.k.'s brightest and best to look elsewhere for money and better jobs read about it at all to talk. fanaa their preliminary results in jordan's a general election show that pro-government tribal candidates have increased their ranks in the parliament but the announcement on state t.v. came as islamists claim the poll was rigged in their rulers favor. and off has more on the first vote in jordan since the arab spring kicked off that two years ago. despite a boycott by the muslim brotherhood and other opposition groups and jordan's first parliamentary election since the start of the arab spring turnout was quite high according to election officials more than fifty six percent of the country's two point three million registered voters came out to cast their ballots this is higher than in the last parliamentary elections in this country the muslim brotherhood and opposition activists meanwhile dismissed the results as illegitimate saying that

voter turnout was actually much lower than officials describe now jordanian officials want credit for what they claim are successful if cautious democratic reforms this is the first time that outside election observers were invited to watch over the polls and the new parliament for the first time will be able to elect the country's new prime minister the parliament will also have more of a say over day to day affairs but the king will continue to retain authority over the security services and foreign policy moreover the new parliament can still be dismissed at any moment by a royal decree of which has cost some jordanians to say that the new reforms are simply too little and too late now the opposition groups also claim that the new parliament is illegitimate because of the country's new election law which they say is tilted towards favoring candidates from rural tribal organizations that are largely seen as being supportive of the monarchy in fact of the one hundred fifty seats in the new parliament only twenty seven went to national candidates of which

the muslim brotherhood is the strongest most powerful and most popular political party they will continue to dismiss the results as illegitimate and are likely to try to ferment more street protests to boycott to continue their boycott of the new poll now at the end of the day jordan stability may not be dissolved by politics and may in fact depend on the economic situation jordan faces high levels of unemployment and has twenty two billion dollars of national debt now jordan's new parliament will have to push through even more biting austerity or. the future. depends on the economic.

security forces and. the vice president. and the.

vice president. over the. during the interview with vice president nicolas maduro the vice president of venezuela he informed us that president chavez is right now in his best moment. since his operation that took place and the beginning of december that there's a lot of expectation regarding his return to venezuela that he's definitely been improving complications have been overcome that arise during his surgery and in the post-operative phase at the same time he did want to speculate about when president chavez what exactly return to the country that that's definitely the cards definitely the near future. this isn't a good post-operative condition and he's recovering very well will make an official announcement to the public soon we're able to visit him all the time. vice president said that right after this interview he would be leaving on a plane to have an excuse to meet with president chavez to visit him informing us

also that president chavez is conscious is awake he's aware of what's going on he's actively involved in his government wants to know what's happening and that he's still at the head of government that he's the one giving the orders and. decisions he's still making the decisions about the different paths that the government's taking. he's the president and more than fifty six percent of the people who voted for his continuing to fulfill his obligations everyone has been a swell and the rest of the world will know that the government is continuing to develop social and economic reforms and he's waiting for the president to recover and for constitutional obligations. overall there's a lot of expectation regarding the return of president chavez and the people of venezuela are very anxious awaiting his arrival. don't know the full version of artes interview right there with vice president of venezuela coming your way off that eight hundred thirty g.m.t. well the billboards here half an hour's time but for now in just a sec it's a breaking a sad without. you

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go welcome to breaking the set since it is a big day isn't just a few moments we're going to get an exclusive interview with kim dotcom and for those of you don't know him dot com is and you the lowdown he's an entrepreneur and tech genius who founded it make it upload a website had one hundred eighty million registered users make it was popular file storage network in the world but if you go to the web sites domain now this is what you'll see that's right the web site's been shut down by the u.s. government is shutting it down it also meant that every single user pain in the service had their data seized but it didn't stop there they then attempted to extradite him on charges of criminal conspiracy money laundering and copyright infringement and an example of the amount of government overreach in this case can dot com as a german citizen who lives in new zealand.